Coming to a new country has its challenges. If studying alone isn’t enough to handle (!), you also have to know information like where to find things around campus, public transport, finding somewhere to live, building new friendships, perhaps learning a new language, and managing your finances (just to name a few), all the while …
Category: Taking Care of You
Navigating Addiction: Nangs
Beyond decorative pieces at dorm room parties, balloons have now found themselves as a means to deliver a brief high in the form of a gas. This gas is nitrous oxide, or what a uni student may refer to as nangs. Nitrous oxide is a gas that is widely used as a medical sedative. It …
Exercise to Excel: 5 Tips to Improve Your Exam Performance
Our bodies were built for mobility! Not desk-bound modality! And UON’s very own Professor David Lubans would agree wholeheartedly. Composed and strong of posture, David very much walks the talk. Starting off as a passionate physical education teacher with a knack for Rugby League, he has now established himself as a researcher dedicated to promoting …
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How to get your diet sorted for exams
Exam time is easily one of the most stressful times of the semester. Between trying to balance study with everything else happening at this time of year, sometimes our diets can suffer. Whether we’re snacking on whatever we can find at Pinkies during a cram session or eating takeout because we don’t have time to …
5 podcasts you NEED to be listening to
The student year is nearly over for many of us, just a few more weeks left to go! Life at the moment is all about multi-tasking, so why not make that a little bit more enjoyable? Whether you need something to help you or amp you up, or just something to listen to while you’re …
How to make the most of your ‘fake break’
Nothing feels better than waking up knowing you have two weeks of sweet, sweet freedom. No classes. No lectures. No battling it out for a park. In previous weeks you would have to set your alarm for 7am. Sit in gridlock. Stay up way too late trying to complete readings. Foregoing nights out at King …
It’s the end of the world as we know it (Except it probably isn’t)
His palms are sweaty, eyes weak, books are heavy There’s coffee on his sweater already, last-minute study He’s nervous, but on the surface he (doesn’t) look calm and ready To ace exams, but he keeps on forgettin’ What he wrote down, the writing time has started now He opens the paper, but the words won’t …
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Navigating Addiction: Cigarettes & Vaping
Apart from the mix of accents and frostbite-y cold, my ‘culture shock’ while on Exchange in Manchester last year, consisted of the strong smoking-culture amongst its students. It appeared to be a habit everyone inherited out of high school (or college, rather) – something less common in my experience studying in Sydney and Newcastle. The …
Dogs of UON
DOGS! Great, now that I have your attention, let’s get down to the actual point of this article (no – it’s not just to talk about how great dogs are). Everyone loves a furry companion. You may not know it, but there are a few select circumstances where you can actually bring your dog on …
That time I went to counselling: Demystifing Adverse Circumstances
At the end of the second semester of my second year of uni, I was struggling. I had some fairly unpleasant family drama come up in the middle of the semester and, as a result, I was feeling isolated and unmotivated which seriously impacted my work. I had dropped out of one course, had barely …
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UON welcomes new gender-neutral bathrooms
To all the cisgender women out there, you know that feeling when you’re queuing for the ladies’ room and hating life, because somehow the men’s bathroom has no queue yet you’ll be waiting an eternity to do your business? It’s pretty annoying hey? Well imagine feeling like you couldn’t use either bathroom. And worse, fearing …
Navigating Addiction: Study Drugs
As the semester ends and we’re all getting swamped with assessments and exams, it’s normal to start worrying about how you’re going to cope with all that work. For some students this means planning everything out within an inch of its life, for some it means late night cramming sessions the day before an exam. …